In which the random, trashy, pop-cultural musings of Mel are displayed in all their superficial glory.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Mashffect. I am home from karaoke, and playing the Carpenters. I am still drunk. We had Charlton's to ourselves tonight. It was kind of crazy - I could indulge all my craziest karaoke requests. Here are some of the songs I can remember doing (there may have been more):

"Electric Blue" by Icehouse (my favourite song of 1987)"Heartbreaker" by Dionne Warwick (lots of personal relevance - "when I was being what you want me to be")"Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield (from having seen Suddenly 30 on Monday - not nearly as satisfying as I thought it would be)"Baby Baby" by Amy Grant (I shouted, "I'm not a Christian!" before I did this one)"Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani (a curiously unsatisfying song - so fucking repetitive)"I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne (rock chick sublime)"Pony" by Ginuwine ("Someone who knows how to ride, without even falling off!")"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (a duet with Tash, in which I shouted "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Elton John!")

But the one that stuck in my head was "Rainy Days and Mondays". God I love the Carpenters. There is something magical about Karen's voice. During the 1980s I learned that it was very daggy to like the Carpenters, as it was to like anything from the 70s, like Abba.

The Carpenters song I always identified most with was "Goodbye to Love":

I’ll say goodbye to loveNo one ever cared if I should live or dieTime and time again the chance for love has passed me byAnd all I know of love is how to live without itI just can’t seem to find itSo I’ve made my mind upI must live my life aloneAnd though it’s not the easy wayI guess I’ve always knownI’d say goodbye to loveThere are no tomorrows for this heart of mineSurely time will lose these bitter memoriesAnd I’ll find that there is someone to believe inAnd to live for something I could live forAll the years of useless searchHave finally reached an endLoneliness and empty days will be my only friendFrom this day love is forgottenI’ll go on as best I canWhat lies in the future is a mystery to us allNo one can predict the wheel of fortune as it fallsThere may come a time when I will see that I’ve been wrongBut for now this is my songAnd it’s goodbye to loveI’ll say goodbye to love

Right now, my feelings are all mashed together. I don't quite know how to describe them. I call this "mashffect". To paraphrase Madonna: "Gilles Deleuze: analyse this... Analyse this." As I just said to the manslave via nerdy MSN:

Mel says:little manslave, I hardly know how to write down the feelings I have nowAdam 2.0 says:wellAdam 2.0 says:please tell me what they areMel says:nostalgiaMel says:lustMel says:sadnessAdam 2.0 says:mmAdam 2.0 says:but all at once, no doubtMel says:absolutely